SiscoKid: Man have I been busy. I literally have no life. I miss school just so I can set forth and go look for it. Everything's coming at once. Districts, map test, the A.C.T and the big band festival. Then I have my private lessons and there's also my aerobic classes which I just started attending. But I shall prevail. Ha, that rhymed! After March, I'll have plenty of free time or atleast I hope I will.
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Nighttime in suburbia, the exact contrast of the daytime. Cats and dogs were the only instruments in this nocturnal orchestra that surely nobody would pay to hear. Ever so often a wrong note would be played like a F flat in a B flat chord, sticking out like a thorn. This would of course be the person suffering from insomniac, or walking home from the graveyard shift, and then there's the other.
Standing on a roof was a short kid wearing a black outfit completed with a black mask and goggles covering his eyes, looking sort of like a ninja. Yup he was most definitely under the other category. Climbing up houses like a pro and jumping from numerous rooftops with the acrobats of a cat, he was certainly losing no time reaching his destination.
From time to time he would stop to catch his breath then look up at the full moon as if the Earths satellite had captured him in a trance. The young man looked so small in comparison to the giant white orb in the night sky. But believe it or not, he is also a satellite. Constantly orbiting another object with more mass then himself.
THUMP!!
"I swear. This man lives in the middle of nowhere!" Robin huffed after hopping off a house into someone's backyard.
"And that's how I like it. Nobody knows where the heck I live."
Robin stood up from his crotched position and turned, spotting his dark skinned friend staring down at him, leaning against his house.
He looked his friend up and noticed something wrong. "Where's your tool box?"
Victor pushed himself off his house and started for the car. "Its in the trunk. I put it in there while I was waiting for you."
"How long you been waiting?" Robin asked as they both made their way from the backyard to Victors car.
"About a half an hour. You know I could of just picked you up." Victor said, pointing out the fact that Robin had wasted time.
"Had a few things to think about alright."
Victor rolled his eyes as they both entered the car.
"Because everybody knows its so easy to think when your hopping rooftops!"
The conversation went dead from. Robin wasn't in the mood for an argument, at least not yet. He knew Victor had a temper and once sat off nobody could stop him.
Robin shifted uncomfortably in his seat. He had much rather of walked or skated boarded. But of course two teens wearing all black would seem rather suspicious. Any cop would have a nice time listening to whatever bull they could come up with.
Half of his mind actually wanted them to get caught by the cops. If only to returned Victor to his senses. But even being arrested probably would deter his friends plans. Victor was a very stubborn person.
What had Raven done?
He had found out long ago that Victor didn't always hate the strange girl. From the pictures he discovered, it seemed he actually liked her. They sort of looked cute together in one of those weird freaky ways.
"Was it sex?" Robin muttered slowly to himself.
"What?" Victor asked.
"Nothing man." Robin said a little surprised that idea had escaped his mouth.
'Okay sex definitely couldn't of been it. They were way to young.'
Robin watched wearily as suburbia morphed into the now dark and quiet business district and then finally merging into Jump city. Or in other words downtown. The streets he had once helped Mark conquer in the years before.
Why would Victor want to return to that?
Or better yet if this is the life his friend wishes to live.
Why hang out with him?
Sure back in the day working for Mark was fun. Screwing around with Stubs and Scar face never seemed to get old. But he had seen Mark do horrible things. Unjust crimes that had no reason at all.
Robin grimaced at the though of what Mark had been up to in the past few months since him and Victor resigned.
"Hey Vic man, stop the car."
"Why? Were already late man."
"Stop the car. I have something to say."
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Raven walked with complete familiarity of her surroundings. She could of closed her eyes and walked the rest of the way back home without tripping once. The path from the library to her house would forever be engraved in her memory. The library was virtually her second home. Today had been one of the librarians birthdays and the other librarians and herself had disguised a book club meeting for her party.
That library had given her so much in past few years. A place to go that wasn't her house. A job even though she didn't get paid. Or best of all friends. Even if most of them were more than twice her age. But then again it was there that Terra and her had first met.
She stopped in mid stride. 'Still haven't decided if that was a good or bad thing.'
Sure Terra was cool and all, but always following Terra was her nearly unbearable boyfriend.
Raven grimaced a little before setting off again.
It was pretty late for a young lady as herself to be walking home at such a time. Well at least any other female might be in danger, but Raven had learned sometime ago that low life's seemed to fear her for some reason. Even a older man in his forties ran for the hills after noticing her unusual hair color. She had found it extremely strange at first but eventually grew used to it. No use worrying about things that didn't affect you.
Raven glanced up at the full moon as she turned a corner.
BUMP!
Raven stumbled back a few feet and then landed in slow motion on her soft bottom. She stared at the sidewalk in a daze for a second before realizing she had bumped into somebody.
She looked up at a person half enveloped by the shadows. It didn't take long before she realized it was a male. His eyes covered by bulky goggles and the rest of his body covered in black clothing, the shadows didn't help identify the person any better. As if the clothing didn't spell trouble already, he was just standing there staring at her as if she was a penguin in a zoo. Okay maybe not a penguin but something really fascinating.
She counted to three to calm herself then consciously began to pick herself up. Only to have panic overwhelm her as the man took two steps and began to lean down, slowly reaching a arm out.
She collapsed back on her butt and froze, waiting for the perfect time to kick him in the nuts.
But no such time came as the man stopped mid reach and froze there. Seconds pasted as Raven tilted her head at the gloved hand.
She heard him clear his throat and saw that he was indicating for her to take hold of his hand.
She reached up precariously and grabbed it and was pulled instantly off the ground back onto her feet.
She took a step back for distance and got a better look at the man. First off, it wasn't hard to see that he wasn't a man. Her eyes narrowed in on his right eye.
"Sorry about that. I wasn't exactly paying attention to where I was...!!!" The boy stopped mid speech as Raven gently pulled his shattered blood stained shades off. With the limited light from the moon, Raven could clearly see one bloodshot eye. The rest of his face was cover by a mask that wrapped all the way around his head.
Without another word she grabbed his wrist and began to walk him in the direction of her house.
"Where are you taking me." He asked once he realized he wasn't standing still anymore.
She stopped and glanced back at him. "My house."
The boy didn't protest, so she continued on her way home. With a bloody boy in toll.
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SiscoKid: Man I got a massive headache, so I'll try and post both chapter five and six this weekend. The nursery home will have to do without me this I suppose, bingo broing anyway. Anyways I'm also greatly sorry for the wait. Words cant express how sorry I truly am. But you got to admit, this is better than me never updating again. Oh and this chapter might be changed around later on this week. Just so tired. Good night. I haven't even proof read this properly yet. heh!
